Anthony R Wood

Broschiertes Buch

Something in the Air

A Four-Season Guide to Our Health and the Weather

Beschreibung

"Something in the Air is a conversational, historical, clinical, and factual tour of the science of biometeorology, addressing what is known about weather-health interaction and separating reality from folklore. Author and veteran Philadelphia Inquirer weather writer Anthony R. Wood takes readers on a comprehensive exploration of the history and state of seasonal conditions"--

Autor

In more than 35 years as a staff writer for The Philadelphia Inquirer, Anthony R. Wood has written on a broad menu of subjects, including taxes, dangerous coastal development, and the changing oceans. Wood has been nominated for Pulitzer Prizes four times. He was co-author of the series, Crisis on the Coast, published as a book, which warned five years before Katrina that an epochal hurricane disaster was inevitable. He has won numerous awards, including a National Association of Science Writers citation for his series on the Gulf Stream and a Society of Professional Journalists award for environmental writing. He is the author of Snow: A History of the World's Most Fascinating Flake, a treatise on the history, science and cultural impacts of snow. He writes frequently about weather and was the author of a popular series on biometeorology, and much of the material in Something in the Air is drawn from personal experience.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Globe Pequot Press
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 354g
• ISBN-13: 9781633889965
• ISBN-10: 1633889963
• Artikelnr.: 68363932